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Canon 7D Mark II to Have Full Metal Body

Recent rumors add to past info suggesting that the Canon 7D Mark II (or whatever the Canon 7D successor is called) will feature an EOS-1D X build quality with a fully metal frame. We’ve heard that it would have “an EOS-1 style top plate” before, but now we’re seeing more and more about a total build-quality comparison.

Additional info points to the lack of a couple key features in recent Canon EOS models – touch screen and WiFi. Both features have been pretty big in recent cameras. Canon certainly has the touch screen functionality down and recent models have worked very well with the capacitive touch screens.

While WiFi has been improved recently, it still is a bit clunky on Canon DSLRs. Supposedly, the reason that it will be left out of the 7D successor is due to the metal frame of the camera, which would interfere with WiFi transmission and prove unreliable to the end users.